<p>We never said we don’t believe some do it, and I cannot believe you are not understanding the actual point here.</p>
<p>As far as California, I have had this discussion with numerous people from there. Here is the section from the UC application. The only take online applications. So yes, the students are indeed doing all the data entry. Then of course doing calculations is easier.
So it appears that the student does indeed enter the data for the school. When I asked how they keep people from cheating, they said they are spot checked enough that cheating means automatic disqualification, so people don’t do it. I have my doubts, but all what I quoted says is that different campuses may be checking and may use different methods. And how stupid is the latter anyway? But surely, vossron, you understand the meaning of may.</p>
<p>Anyway, this is getting tiresome because, I repeat, it does not in the least address the point that the GPA’s being reported everywhere, including the CDS, are not calculated the same way by many schools, are therefore not comparable, and that these schools are not following the instructions. That was all the real point was. The fact that California schools have the students do the work for them, have no real way of knowing if the data is accurate (although it probably largely is), but then potentially recalculate it differently from school to school just further demonstrates how worthless this is.</p>